BTMSPA 2016 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches (BTMSPA'16)

Research studies conducted in the area of software engineering have proposed hundreds of techniques and recommendations. On the other hand, software projects are performed in frame of several constraints including required quality, time and budget constraints as well as staff competences. Thus there is a need for selection of the techniques which allow practitioners to achieve a fair balance between time and effort spent on performing these techniques and benefits they provide.
Several traditions exist in software engineering including formal, methodological, user-centered, reuse and agile approaches. Additionally, novel approaches are still being proposed, e.g. collaborative approaches. Each of the approaches focuses on solving a different kind of problems. The proper balance between approaches and, consequently techniques in use, depends on the characteristics of the project at hand.
This symposium aims at exchanging experience and making progress in the knowledge about software process configuration with fair balance between traditional and modern approaches. We invite both experience reports from industry and scientific studies of integrated approaches.
Topics
Balance between agile and disciplined approaches
Innovation and creativity in software engineering
Collaborative games in software processes
Business-IT alignment
Enterprise integration, business integration and systems integration
IT-enabled innovations in organizations
Cooperative, distributed, and collaborative software engineering
Variability across the software life cycle
Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS
Quality assurance and management
Social media, open data, Internet of Things in business processes
Methods, tools and human factors in IS/IT management
Industrial case studies and experience reports related to the above topics